Wang Liang-Yin

Biography

Wang Liang-Yin's creative path revolves around familiar scenes in life, depicting material stimuli as the theme. Cool and warm colors, two conflicting color palettes, coexist harmoniously on the canvas, presenting an image of laughter and joy, but with a quiet composure and a slightly sorrowful ambience. Her works evolve from the intimate relationship between object and the self to the ambiguity and contradiction between human beings, consumer society, and the natural environment. The artist uses desire, a common language of mankind, to make the circus, amusement park, dolls, and Christmas trees in her paintings detached from the material appearance, and narratives intimate metaphors. There is a certain degree of spiritual abstraction and expressiveness, the atmosphere is vivid and intense, paradoxical but not obscure, with an infectious energy, laced with subtle yet intimate dangers. Viewers are invited to explore their own memories and desires as they travel through the mottled patches of eternity.

Anselm Kiefer, a representative of German Neo-Expressionism, once said in an interview, "Everything has already occurred at the beginning, because the beginning is the end." This kind of paradoxical duality has always been an important feature of Wang's paintings, pointing to a distant spiritual boundary, where the end is not really the end, but rather the restlessness thoughts when one standing on the boundary of self-recognition. In there, reality and falsehood, memory and imagination, eternity and disappearance are sweetly and brutally intertwined. Therefore, her works always leave an impression of an intense, mysterious and uneventful dream.

In common social values, what is considered "good" is the more the better, and what is labeled as "bad" is better out of sight. However, the world is not a dichotomy of black and white, good and bad, but rather two sides of the same coin, and it is difficult to dismiss the various attributes of an object. It is precisely this convergence of conditions that creates the value of the existence of each object, depending on the point of view from which it is viewed and interpreted. On the other hand, each individual carries a socially assigned function and position, divided into different roles in the complex world. Over time, these have become a framework that frames the way the public understands and imagines, and further limits the other possibilities of us. Wang uses her painting to explore the multifaceted nature of objects, deconstructing the components of a theme with colors, and analyzing in detail the composition and structure of the subject matter, which is either sweet with bitterness, or vice versa. Understanding is never one-sided, but rather, people choose familiar modes of thinking to interpret. In the process of art creation, Wang tries to break away from the habitual thinking and use multiple perspectives to understand different aspects of things in life.

Wang Liang-Yin, born in Yunlin, Taiwan in 1979, received M.F.A. from Taipei National University of the Arts. She has been not only in Taiwan but also overseas for exhibitions such as New York, Germany, UK, Japan, Jakarta, Korea, and China. She had solo exhibitions "Happy Birthday, My Dear" at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei in 2014, "The End of the Rainbow" at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei in 2018. Wang's artworks are collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Art Bank Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Long Yen Foundation, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taichung County Seaport Art Center, and Sunpride Foundation, and are not only selected by Kaohsiung Award but also won the first prize of NewPerspective Art in Taiwan Dimensional Creation Series, Long Yen Foundation Creative Arts Award, Chang Hsing Lung Award and so on.